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ERCIM News N°111
Special: Digital Humanities
Next issue: January 2018 - Quantum Computing (call for contributions)
Special: Digital Humanities
Next issue: January 2018 - Quantum Computing (call for contributions)
Cooperating for Excellence in Research
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading European research institutes are members of ERCIM.
Latest News
Jos Baeten elected president of ERCIM AISBL
The General Assembly of the ERCIM AISBL, held on 24 October in Lisbon, unanimously elected Jos Baeten, general director of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as its new President for a period of two years as of January 2018. Jos Baeten succeeds Domenico Laforenza from the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) who served as President of ERCIM since January 2014.
Tim Baarslag Winner of the 2017 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award
Tim Baarslag from CWI was selected as the winner of the 2017 ERCIM Cor Baayen Award, in a very tough competition with 15 finalists. The award committee recognises Tim’s skills and the results that he has achieved. His enthusiasm for internationally oriented research cooperation, his talent for recognising the potential use of mathematical tools, and his cooperative skills make him a young researcher of outstanding quality.
W3C Workshop: WebVR Authoring: Opportunities and Challenges
ERCIM invites researchers to participate in the workshop "WebVR Authoring: Opportunities and Challenges" in Brussels, 5-7 December 2017. The event is organised by W3C and hosted by DigitYser. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together WebVR stakeholders to identify unexploited opportunities as well as technical gaps in WebVR authoring.
ERCIM fall meetings 2017 in Lisbon
The ERCIM fall meetings 2017 will be hosted by our member INESC at Nova University Lisbon from Sunday 22 - Tuesday 24 October 2017. The ERCIM meetings are held in conjunction with the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2017). For detailed information and registration, see https://www.ercim.eu/events/ercim-days
Pictures show the rectory building of NOVA University of Lisbon (© NOVA University of Lisbon) and a view of Lisbon (source: skitterphoto.com)
VRE4EIC empowers environmental data-driven science
VRE4EIC, an H2020 European research project, coordinated a week of project meetings in Rome 11-15 September 2017 bringing together representatives of major European initiatives involved in environmental multidisciplinary data-driven science.
